UnrealIRCd 5.0.0-alpha4 released

[Bram M. <sy...@un...>]

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Hi everyone,

The fourth alpha version of UnrealIRCd 5 is now available for download.
This is not a stable version, it is for testing only and the server may
misbehave. Some planned functionality for UnrealIRCd 5 is still missing,
but about 90% is there. UnrealIRCd 5 alpha versions are there to give
users an early opportunity to see what the current state of UnrealIRCd 5
is. For those users who do dare to run it, feel free to report any
issues you may find or comment on the many U5 features on
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/.

The full release notes are available here
<https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/blob/f5137678ff13071890a3f0d7c3ac312fba3435d8/doc/RELEASE-NOTES.md>.

Changes between 5.0.0-alpha3 and 5.0.0-alpha4

  * Various I/O engine changes to reduce CPU usage and make things more
    efficient
  * Many(!) code cleanups again
  * Support for IRCv3 draft/labeled-response-0.2
  * set::allowed-channelchars now defaults to only allowing utf8 in
    channel names (see release notes for more information)
  * Websockets now support type 'text' and you have to explicitly enable
    them per listen block (see release notes for more information)
  * Use generic numeric 531 to signal a blocked message to a person
  * We are also in the process of removing compatibility code for old
    protocols, such as UnrealIRCd 3.2.x. This will further clean up the
    source code and will get rid of old bugs
  * WARNING: if you are using anope, then note that starting with
    5.0.0-alpha4 you need to apply the following patch:
    https://github.com/anope/anope/commit/da6e2730c259d6d6356a0a948e85730ae34663ab.patch

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